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- 91: Shockwave Rider
- There are numerous books on the science fiction market, that deal with the myriad of possibilities involving the technology of the future. John Brunner s book, Shockwave Rider, is one of the most popular, as well as one of the most famous, books ... incredibly tense, and almost plausible today. The space that the author deals with is filled with endless bits of information (information overload to be more precise), corporate domination, and it appears, just like many science fiction books that deal with the planet earth in the future, everything is known about everyone. there are no secrets from the system. Brunner illustrates this as a reality that is not necessarily very desirable. He ... would not like to exist in such a world. Brunner is clearly indicating that such a world wide datanet would not be desirable at all. these are very real possibilities and as any good science fiction writer knows, the future is often illustrated as it might be, in an attempt to help eliminate the possibility. The good science fiction writer examines all of the possibilities and often finds the most ...
- 92: Frankenstein: Technology
- ... Rankin 42). Science provided in the novel provided that authority, creating a foundation story in what the English culture current with Mary Shelley would have taken as real world possibility. The rhetoric of science in fiction is not merely a modern overlay on storytelling, nor is it employed, except fortuitously, to convey newly discovered information about the world. Once upon a time fiction, which obviously is not true, took its authority form the Muse: at other times from the Bible. Neither of these sources of authority would do for Shelley, but authority has always to be found somewhere ... about what is to come. Shelley's tale of horror is a profound insight of the consequences of morally insensitive scientific and technological research. Works Cited Asimov, Isaac. "The Scientist as Villian." Asimov on Science Fiction. New York: Granada, 1983. 65-68. Brooks, Peter. "Godlike Science/ Unhallowed Arts: Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein." New Literary History (Spring 1978) 591-605 Fellman, Gordon. "The Truths of Frankenstein: Technologism and Images of ...
- 93: The X-Files, X Marks the Spot: Book Report
- ... Report I liked The X-files, X Marks the Spot. There was a lot of suspense. It was easy to understand. The events were spread out well. Overall it wasn't another long boring science fiction book. There was a lot of suspense. There was suspense as soon as I got into the second chapter. I didn't want to put the book down. I sometimes have trouble trying to find ... whole book fast, I was always reading it in study hall, and trying to get as far as I could in readers workshop. It was easy to understand. I've read a lot of science fiction books that are very complicated. Some books have too many characters to remember, or they have something that is really weird or unrealistic. Some science fiction books get way too far out. This book was nothing like that. The events were spread out well. Some science fiction books are very boring, till the end of the book where all the ...
- 94: Dicks' Androids and Scotts' Replicants
- ... written over fifty novels, and is considered among some of the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and '60s, such as; William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science- fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually spoke of people trying to figure out who they are, or what they are supposed to be. He is best known, however, for his work in science-fiction, and this represents the majority ...
- 95: Short-story Paper
- ... The similarities and differences that exist in the two stories are substantial. Before, the analysis on the stories takes place there are some general points that have to be mentioned that concern other elements of fiction that are as well important. To begin with, the town name that is used in both stories is the same and that is Jefferson . Also both stories are taking place in the old South. And ... to say that there are many similes and metaphors in the text that make it more true to the reader, She looked bloated, like a body long stated their errand (432). Inversely, another element of fiction that is going to be analyzed is the character presentation. There are many characters involved in the story, and Faulkner is presenting information about all of them, in most of the cases he also describes ... shows to us how the life of a woman changes, and how an incident affected her life. Now if we compare the two stories we will find similarities in terms of the two elements of fiction, we discussed before. One of the major similarities that the two stories have is that both of them have to do with women, who had a strange life; also both of these stories are ...
- 96: Frankenstein
- ... often prevails, and according to literary scholars, elevated these horror stories into Gothic sublime (Bernstein 333). Specifically, the Gothic sublime symbolizes a black hole which finally absorbs history into its own emptiness (Bernstein 333). Gothic fiction is, quite simply, man taking a walk on the dark side. There is, undeniably, no novel which epitomizes the popular Gothic structure more than Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley s early 19th-century masterpiece, Frankenstein (actually entitled ... to write each a story founded on some supernatural occurrence (2). While the familiar castle may have been missing from the story itself, a castle setting and the telling of ghost stories inspired the science fiction foray into the supernatural. There is also a proper setting for a Gothic tale, and if there is no castle, there is usually a thunderstorm to inspire terror. It was one particular thunderstorm which ignited ... were responsible for the subject matter of these dreams -- usually a presumed-dead woman, who, it is hoped by her suitor, will be miraculously brought back to life with his kiss (Pitcher 35). As literary fiction critic E.W. Pitcher noted, One can argue for... Gothic fragments that the dream-death-stasis was also the expedient retreat of innocence from the awareness of sexual appetite, and the differentiating attraction to ...
- 97: The Time Machine by H.G Wells
- ... Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction's fondest dreams and worst fears. Wells mother attempted to find him a safe occupation as a draper or chemist. Wells had a quick mind and a good memory that enabled him to pass subjects ... was exposed to biology under the famous Thomas H. Huxley. Wells went into teaching and writing text books and articles for the magazines that were of that time. In 1894 he began to write science-fiction stories. -James Gunn Wells vision of the future, with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the working class of his day and the pretty but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated ...
- 98: The Time Maching (analysis)
- ... Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction s fondest dreams and worst fears. Wells mother attempted to find him a safe occupation as a draper or chemist. Wells had a quick mind and a good memory that enabled him to pass subjects ... was exposed to biology under the famous Thomas H. Huxley. Wells went into teaching and writing text books and articles for the magazines that were of that time. In 1894 he began to write science-fiction stories. -James Gunn Wells vision of the future, with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the working class of his day and the pretty but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class, may seem antiquated ...
- 99: Foundation Analysis
- Grace Palley has said, “All fiction is a lie, but at the heart of that lie is a truth.” This quote directly applies to Issac Asimov’s, Foundation. Science Fiction deals with events that did happened, may have happened, or have not yet happened to a certain degree. Foundation has symbolic revelation of corrupt power and the quest for the truth. Foundation, like many science fiction novels, contains symbolism, which reflects the deep core of truth with all lives while outwardly representing improbable people, places and things. According to Grace Palley’s statement it is easy to compare Foundation with ...
- 100: Stephen Crane
- ... with it, the end of Maggie herself. In the final chapter Maggie meets her ultimate fate. Edwin Moses says of Maggie’s conclusion, “It is one of the most harrowingly ironic endings in all of fiction…”(433). After being disowned by her mother for leaving her home to live with Peter, Maggie is disowned by Peter as well. In the end she is left for a more beautiful woman with more ... This technique is often repeated and occurs often in his writings. Crane is credited and recognized for having the ability to do this so well. “Both realism and symbolism, the two major directions of modern fiction, have their beginnings in Crane’s work”(Peden, 150). The caliber of Maggie’s reality was too graphic for many people of the time to handle and was therefore looked down upon by many. Upon ... Colvert, James B. “Stephen Crane.” American Realists and Naturalists. Ed. Donald Pizer. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 100-24. Vol. 12 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Garland, Hamlin. “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.” The Arena June 1893. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Critcism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 1983. 121. Karlen, Amo. “ ...
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